Hat-fastener.



No. 662,5. Patented Nov. 27, I900.

J. WARNER.

HAT FASTENER.

(Application filed May 3, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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JANE WARNER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

HAT -FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,511, dated November 27, 1900.

Application filed May 3,1900. Serial No. 16,302. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JANE WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat- Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hat-fasteners; and my invention consists in certain features of novelty hereinafter described, and pointed out-in the claim.

Figure 1 represents an isometric view,somewhat enlarged, of a hat-fastener embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an isometric view of a hat provided with my improved fastener, the hat-rim being partly broken away to show how the fastener is secured to the crown of the hat. Two fasteners are preferably used, one on each side, as shown, as thereby the hat-pins passing through the hair, one from each side, the hat is securely fastened upon the head of the wearer.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts in both views.

1 represents the hat.

2 represents a hat'pin which is preferably formed, as shown, with a knob on the inner end to prevent pricking the scalp as the pin is thrust into place through the hair.

To secure the hat-pin upon the hat, a plate 3 is provided having an extension 4, in which is a perforation 5,through which the hat-pin is inserted. Said plate isprovided with pointed projections 6, adapted to be thrust through the crown of the hat just above the junction of the crown with the brim, the relation being such that the perforation 5 in the extension 4 will come just below the brim, so that the hat-pin may move freely in and out closely ,under the brim. In the pointed projections 6 are perforations 7, through which is inserted a pin 8, and the plate thereby prevented from becoming disengaged from the hat.

I am aware that it is not new to connect a hat-pin with a hat by some means to form a hat-fastener. In some of the forms heretofore presented the holder of the hat-pin is secured. to the hat by pointed projections, which are thrust through the crown or the brim and turned over or clenched. With these the connection is permanent, it not being intended that the fastener should be removed or taken oif of one hat and put upon another, as occasion might require. In other forms the holder is secured upon the crown or brim of the hat by means of a pin in the nature of a safety-pin, and is hence removable and may be taken 01f of one hat and fastened upon another, if so desired; but with the small safety-pin necessarily used, if the material of the hat be at all heavy or stiff, as is quite usually the case, it is almost, if not quite, impossible to make the attachment with such a pin, and if the attachment be made it is with more or less injury to the body of the hat, while the loop in which the pin is caught when fastened being on the inner side of the crown or under side of the brim is constantly being caught by the hair, making it very disagreeable for the wearer. With my improved fastener, however, the pointed projections will be of such size that they may easily be thrust through the crown, however thick or stiff the material may be, and without the slightest injury to the hat, and the pin inserted in the perforations, and the device thus quickly and securely fastened upon the hat and without danger of disengagement, as with the safety-pin arrangement, in which the pin is constantly escaping from its loop and the device coming loose from the hat. Furthermore, with my device if it is desired to take it off of one hat and put it upon another by simply removing the pin from the projections the plate can be taken off and the change instantly and easily made, this facility in changing the fastener from one hat to another being a leading feature and very important advantage in my improved fastener, for the reason that the ladies usually have more than one hat, as one for the street, another for church or theater, and others for various occasions,upon all of which the fastener must be used.

Another important advantage in this fastener is that it presents no loops or points on the inner side of the crown to catch the hair and annoy the wearer.

In view of the prior devices I do not claim 5 a hat-fastener broadly; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A hat-fastener consisting of a plate having pointed perforated projections adapted to be IO thrust through the crown of the hat, a pin engaging said perforations to secure said plate to the hat, a perforated extension on said plate. extending below the junction of the crown with the brim of the hat, and a hat-pin engaged in the perforationin said 15 extension and adapted to slide therein, substantially as set forth.

JANE WARNER.

Witnesses:

L. M. COX, E. H. PHELPS. 

